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GoRail staff scans the documents of train passengers to the system which enables the border guard to carry out a preliminary check in order to prevent persons arriving in Estonia, who are undesirable, pose a threat to national security or public order.

"Service provider GoRail presented earlier on the Tallinn-St Petersburg and St. Petersburg-Tallinn route manually compiled list of passengers to border guard officials, on the basis of which, border guard officials started conducting border control to passengers when the train arrived," said project manager of SMIT Oscar Tirman. "It took time, because the written data were not always readable and had to be double checked," he said.

GoRail's Development Director Jolan Shevtsov said that the digitalization of data transfer is a big step in the direction of reducing the waiting time of the train at the border.